If there's one group who should be protesting this movie it's the Screen Actors Guild. Stiller does milk it, but the protesters are missing the point. In the most famous example, the film has run into flak from disabled advocates for its repeated use of the word "retard," referring to Speedman's previous bid for artistic respectability, a sentimental "Forrest Gump"-style Oscar bid by the name of "Simple Jack." Watch why several groups want to boycott the film » "Tropic Thunder" is willing to push its gags right to the edge - and sometimes over it. That is, until the stars lose contact with the outside world and find themselves in a firefight with Golden Triangle drug lords. So when disabled Vietnam vet "Four Leaf" Tayback (Nick Nolte) - the inspiration for the movie - suggests dropping them into the jungle and shooting the picture with hidden digital cameras, "guerrilla-style," it seems like a stroke of genius. (Any resemblance to Russell Crowe is entirely superficial but can hardly be coincidental.)Ĭockburn quickly loses the trust of his ferocious, potty-mouthed studio boss (in one of the film's more inspired insider gags, he's played by a real-life studio boss you may just recognize as Tom Cruise).
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The latter is a temperamental chameleon who takes his craft so seriously he has undergone skin pigmentation treatment for his role as a black GI. Jackson), action beefcake Tugg Speedman (Stiller) and Aussie method man Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.). The movie-within-a-movie is directed by Damian Cockburn (Steve Coogan) and stars chubby clown Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), rapper Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Which is just as well, because it looks like it cost an arm and a leg to make. Stiller's "Tropic Thunder," on the other hand, gets it mostly right. It's a high-concept meta-movie about an all-star Vietnam War picture (also called "Tropic Thunder") that goes very, very wrong. When the bat's been away, Steve Carell ("Get Smart"), Will Ferrell ("Step Brothers") and Seth Rogen ("Pineapple Express") have all come out to play, and notched up lucrative returns, too.īen Stiller's sometimes hilarious "Tropic Thunder" is easily the biggest of the summer's blockbuster comedies - and certainly the goriest.
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